This guy was scheduled for a c-section on 1/30 because he was complete breech with little room to move.

Last night around 7:10 I started having back pain. I thought he was just kicking me or sitting in a weird position so I started moving around a bit.

At 7:30 they were really starting to hurt and became more frequent. I began to time them. These were contractions and were coming about three minutes apart.

I called the hospital and went to L&D around 8:00. They had to hook me up to the monitors to confirm I was in active labor before establishing the OR team. When they checked my cervix I was 1 cm dilated and 90% effaced. They waited an hour and came back, I was already a 5 with contractions coming closer and closer with little rest.

Another hour later, waiting for the anesthesiologist to show up for surgery and I was a 10, doing everything I could to keep this baby’s butt from coming out. Once we were finally in the operating room the OB was literally pushing his butt back inside as the anesthesiologist was trying to do the spinal block.

I guess this boy just wanted me to experience both natural labor AND a c-section. If he has been head down, labor would have been about 4 hours start to finish with no medication!